Mohamed Noor ambushed: Pictured Minneapolis Police Officer, Mohammed Noor who shot dead Australian woman, Justine Ruszczyk also known as Justine Damond allegedly because he felt his life was under imminent threat.

Mohamed Noor ambushed: How a Minneapolis cop shot Justine Damond cause he perceived her as a threat to his and his partner’s life. But does it add up?

Mohamed Noor the 31 year old Minneapolis police officer who shot dead 40 year old Australian woman, Justine Ruszczyk has publicly spoken explaining what led to him ‘accidentally’ shooting the woman who also went by her future husband’s surname, Justine Damond.

In an account as gleaned from an un-named friend, the dailymail reports Noor saying he had been startled by the sudden rushing of Damond to the squad car on the evening of the shooting, Saturday, July 15 in what he believed to be a possible ambush in progress.

After having responded to a 911 call from Damond about a possible sexual assault taking place in a back alley near her home, the officer was on high alert and found himself ‘spooked’ when an unidentified figure emerged from the dark and ran towards the vehicle.

This despite the claim from Noor’s partner, Matthew Harrity, 26, that he was already conversingwith the woman who had come out to greet police officers in her pajamas while holding her cell-phone.

From there, the friend said Noor told him that he wasn’t sure whether the person approaching the squad car was carrying a gun and proceeded to open gunfire through his driver-partner’s open window.

It was confirmed that Justine’s cell phone was found alongside her during the tragedy.

Mohamed Noor ambushed: A timeline in the shooting death of Justine Damond.

Noor told associates it was dark and the situation was already tense as the caller had been ‘panicking’ when making the 911 call.

The squad car, driven by Noor’s partner Harrity traveled hastily down the unlit alley between Washburn and Xerxes avenues south from West 50th Street toward West 51st Street.

Of critical note, the vehicle did not have its lights on and this may have been so as not to give any suspect notice that police had arrived and buy precious time to apprehend the target. That the car was unlit was disclosed by Harrity to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA).

Both Noor and the BCA’s version of events agree on the car’s lights being off.

According to Noor’s version when they reached the end of the alley, they came across a waiting, panicking figure.

It was dark, and the figure was moving around and approached their vehicle.

Moments before as the officers drove into the alley, they noticed a young man ride past on a bicycle.

As the officers watched the cyclist ride past on the passenger side of the vehicle, they were startled by a pounding on the driver’s side, the source revealed via KSTP.

The sound led the officers to believe they were ‘caught in an ambush’ the source told, with Noor firing his gun, which was in his lap at the time.

The bullet fired past Harrity in the driver’s seat, through the open driver’s side window and struck Justine Damond in the abdomen.

Noor said he did not know whether the figure who rushed towards their vehicle was the 911 caller or even if it was a man or woman. At the time, Noor had perceived the approaching figure who Hannity was already speaking to as a threat.

Both he and Harrity gave CPR to the victim before help and back up arrived, with Damond pronounced dead at the scene shortly after.

Mohamed Noor ambushed: Pictured the Minneapolis officer who claims he felt his life was being threatened and the woman who was shot dead because of the man’s mistake, Justine Damond.

While Noor had declined to be interviewed by the BCA, Harrity had agreed to talk to the police unit and give his version of events.

The Minneapolis Star Tribune citedFred Bruno, Harrity’s lawyer, saying Noor may have been startled by a ‘loud noise’ before Damond approached the police car.

Of note, on the evening of the shooting, fireworks had been going off in the vicinity.

The nature of the 911 call, the sudden noise and the figure running towards them in the darkness gave the officers the impression that they were being set up for an ambush insisted the lawyer.

‘It’s certainly reasonable to assume that any police officer would be concerned about a possible ambush under these circumstances,’ Bruno said. ‘It was only a few weeks ago when a female NYPD cop and mother of twins was executed in her car in a very similar scenario.’

That said, despite the claim of feeling an ambush was in play,Hannity conceded being “stunned”when his colleague opened fire on Justine Damond, a source told via KARE 11 on Tuesday. Intimating that Hannity may have never felt threatened, particularly now that he was addressing Damond as she approached him on the driver’s side.